Boerhaave

[ bôr′hä′və, bur′- ]

Hermann 1668-1738

Dutch physician and educator noted for developing the modern technique of clinical medical instruction.

Example sentences from the Web for boerhaave

The celebrated physician Boerhaave was once engaged in so profound a meditation that he did not close his eyes for six weeks.

Curiosities of Medical Experience |J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
He talked a great deal of Boerhaave, whose favourite pupil he had been.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Boerhaave calls water, 'a kind of glass that melts at a heat any thing greater than 32 degrees of Farenheit's thermometer.

Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works |Anonymous
Among the earlier workers to this better purpose was the great Dutch physician Boerhaave.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom |Andrew Dickson White

Pitcairn and Boerhaave were leaders of the iatro-mathematicians; and Mead was reckoned the last of its distinguished patrons.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam